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they aren't even granted citizenship in assad's syria. but rather than fight assad's troops, they are taking their place in northern towns near the 500-mile border with turkey when government forces depart to focus elsewhere. the assertiveness of syria's kurds is causing anxiety in turkey. tens of thousands of turkish citizens-- kurd and non-kurd alike-- have been killed in three decades of an insurgency for independence waged by turkey's outlawed kurdistan workers' party, or p.k.k. p.k.k. terror attacks began trending up last year, shortly after turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan called on syrian president assad to step down. the growing power of the syrian militia-- close allies of the p.k.k.-- is exacerbating a most sensitive issue in turkey, says kemal kirisci, a political scientist at bogazici university in istanbul. >> there is a feeling on the part of the public especially that the northeastern parts of syria that is heavily populated by kurds obtained a kind of de facto autonomy. itas led to the turkish public to believe
they aren't even granted citizenship in assad's syria. but rather than fight assad's troops, they are taking their place in northern towns near the 500-mile border with turkey when government forces depart to focus elsewhere. the assertiveness of syria's kurds is causing anxiety in turkey. tens of thousands of turkish citizens-- kurd and non-kurd alike-- have been killed in three decades of an insurgency for independence waged by turkey's outlawed kurdistan workers' party, or p.k.k. p.k.k....
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syria borders five other countries. is there a difference in the way they're being received in these various places? are they being allowed to cross unmolested? >> well, i've been very much impressed when i was in lebanon and syria to see that these countries have done three things that are uncommon: open borders, access to services, to schools and to the medical facilities, and no report of brutality or abuse by local security forces. this is quite remarkable. therefore, the welcoming of the syrians had been very good. it is important that we support these countries so that they keep on keeping their borders open. the only syrians who are can help now are those getting out. >> suarez: are people who are trying to make it to the border being harassed? are they under attack while they're still in syria? >> when we were in lebanon in the northern part of lebanon just across hama, the border was very dangerous. we had reports of syrian sharp shooters taking aim at refugees trying to flee. most of them have been crossing in
syria borders five other countries. is there a difference in the way they're being received in these various places? are they being allowed to cross unmolested? >> well, i've been very much impressed when i was in lebanon and syria to see that these countries have done three things that are uncommon: open borders, access to services, to schools and to the medical facilities, and no report of brutality or abuse by local security forces. this is quite remarkable. therefore, the welcoming of...
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and he was associated with a couple of particular things targeted syria and syria allies in lebanon. one was the vestigation into the murder of former prime minister rafikve hariri in 2005 andost recently he was seen as beio involved in the arrest of one of the syrian president assad's top allies in lebanon which was seen as a very bold move for the intelligence services in lebanon. >> brown: no one has tak respoibility for the bombing yet, i gather.y who what is the thinking there? what is being talked about? who is being looked at? >> well, politicians in lebanon who are associated with the sort of anti-assad movement have been very quick to blame assad. for many lebanese the bomb today was a huge blast, was reminiscent of a string of attacks which took place against anti-syrian politicians in the year 2005 to 2008. so there's a lot of people targeting theta syrians for this, although syria has condemned the attack. and described it as an ago of terrorism. but there are protests in areas of lebanon, sort of associated with opposition to the syrian regime today. so the mood on the s
and he was associated with a couple of particular things targeted syria and syria allies in lebanon. one was the vestigation into the murder of former prime minister rafikve hariri in 2005 andost recently he was seen as beio involved in the arrest of one of the syrian president assad's top allies in lebanon which was seen as a very bold move for the intelligence services in lebanon. >> brown: no one has tak respoibility for the bombing yet, i gather.y who what is the thinking there? what...
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that's all at www.newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: now to syria >> ifill: now, to syria. the united nations estimates today that the death toll has reached 9,000 as the government there continues to uproot opposition forces. today president bashar assad toured the city of homs, the scene of some of the worst fighting. john ray of independent television news reports. >> reporter: the scene was carefully crafted for state television. among the crowd a weeping man to greet president assad this was the long-time rebel stronghold of be be am. government forces have reduced much of it to ruins. r many inhis city the president is no liberator, he's a murderer. >> the people that were there in be be, they are refugees in other area. they look and see this criminal who is killing innocent people, killing children also. >> reporter: not far away, opposition groups tell us fierce battles still rage. it's hard to verify when these images were filmed, but the fighting is intense. this activist says he's in central homs. then shells begin to fall all around him. shattering the narrow s
that's all at www.newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: now to syria >> ifill: now, to syria. the united nations estimates today that the death toll has reached 9,000 as the government there continues to uproot opposition forces. today president bashar assad toured the city of homs, the scene of some of the worst fighting. john ray of independent television news reports. >> reporter: the scene was carefully crafted for state television. among the crowd a weeping man to greet president...
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you have conflagrations within syria. the whole region is teetering and the whole region is brittle, politically and strategically. and into the mix now the israelis come with this major operation against gaza. they cannot live in the region and claim that they are to the going to be touched by the reverberations taking place in the region. >> brown: do you see a kind of political solution? and what will the u.s. role be. >> i disagree with a lot of things that was said now. but one thing i very strongly agree. there is no political solution. and there can to the be a political solution because what you have in gaza is an organization dedicated it to the destruction of israel, dedicated to killing of jews. this is what they say openly. i mean this is not an interpretation of what they're saying. this is what they're saying. as long as the threat exists they will fight israel. they are committed to an anti-sellity-- anti-semitic of killing juice jews, it's in their charter n their document t is what they are openly saying.
you have conflagrations within syria. the whole region is teetering and the whole region is brittle, politically and strategically. and into the mix now the israelis come with this major operation against gaza. they cannot live in the region and claim that they are to the going to be touched by the reverberations taking place in the region. >> brown: do you see a kind of political solution? and what will the u.s. role be. >> i disagree with a lot of things that was said now. but one...
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they weren't even citizens of syria. and they don't trust, the free syrian army, the sunni arab rebels-- they don't have a bond with them and they don't trust them any more than they did assad. they don't trust in a post-assad syria, if it was completely run by the rebeles, the rebels we know of, that they would have any more rights than they did under assad. so instead they've been training over in camps in iraqi kurdistan, and hoping to take advantage of this chaos to carve out areas that could ultimately become an independent syrian kurdish state. >> suarez: in the meantime, as syria's war widens, the pressure on turkey has grown as we've seen from your previous reporting here on the newshour. but recently, the ankara government has made an interesting request to nato. tell us more about it. >> warner: you're absolutely right, ray, turkey has requested-- actually a week or so ago-- for nato to send patriot missile batteries to defend turkey's border and airspace against any incoming of any sort that could wowld come i
they weren't even citizens of syria. and they don't trust, the free syrian army, the sunni arab rebels-- they don't have a bond with them and they don't trust them any more than they did assad. they don't trust in a post-assad syria, if it was completely run by the rebeles, the rebels we know of, that they would have any more rights than they did under assad. so instead they've been training over in camps in iraqi kurdistan, and hoping to take advantage of this chaos to carve out areas that...
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as the conflict in syria rages on, the death toll climbs. more than 34,000 people have been killed in the violen that began in march of last year.l more than 350,000 refugees have left the country. a million more have been displaced from their homes in syria. it's a human tragedy on an immense and horrifying scale, but it's also becoming clear that the battle between syrian government forces and the rebel free syrian army is taking another kind of toll-- on the country's rich and historic cultural heritage. a center of that heritage: aleppo, syria's largescity, now a scene of destruction that we report nearly every night. but less known is this: aleppo is considered perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited human settlement in the world, home to numerous civilizations layered on top of one another-- including hittites, assyrians, arabs, mongols and ottomans-- that reach back to the beginning of recorded time. >> we have references to a place called aleppo from roundabout 2000 b.c., and it's clear that it had certain antiquity then. >> brown:
as the conflict in syria rages on, the death toll climbs. more than 34,000 people have been killed in the violen that began in march of last year.l more than 350,000 refugees have left the country. a million more have been displaced from their homes in syria. it's a human tragedy on an immense and horrifying scale, but it's also becoming clear that the battle between syrian government forces and the rebel free syrian army is taking another kind of toll-- on the country's rich and historic...
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in syria, the u.n. announced it is pulling out non-essential international staff for their own safety. those who remain will be restricted to the capital city, damascus. separately, the u.s. voiced mounting concern about activity at syrian government sites storing chemical weapons. this afternoon, president obama warned syrian leader bashar al- assad not to cross that line. oday i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command, the world is watching. the use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. and if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences. and you will be held accountable. >> sreenivasan: in response, syria's government released a statement saying it would never use chemical weapons on its own people. the regime has never confirmed it has such weapons. there were warnings about greater curbs on the internet, as the world's nations gathered today for a summit on telecommunications. the 11-day conference in dubai is the f
in syria, the u.n. announced it is pulling out non-essential international staff for their own safety. those who remain will be restricted to the capital city, damascus. separately, the u.s. voiced mounting concern about activity at syrian government sites storing chemical weapons. this afternoon, president obama warned syrian leader bashar al- assad not to cross that line. oday i want to make it absolutely clear to assad and those under his command, the world is watching. the use of chemical...
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. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez updates the bloodshed in syria as government troops bombarded the rebel-held city of homs and u.n. monitors reached the scene of the latest massacre. >> brown: from el salvador, we have the story of an epidemic of tooth decay in the countryside blamed largely on american junk food and sodas. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i had never seen this before. what happened. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: and we look at the dashed hopes for a triple crown winner this year as the colt i'll have another is scratched from the belmont stakes after a leg injury. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the united states almost 30 years ago, i could not find an omega-fish oithat workefor me. i became inspired to bring a new definition of fish oil quali
. >> woodruff: then, ray suarez updates the bloodshed in syria as government troops bombarded the rebel-held city of homs and u.n. monitors reached the scene of the latest massacre. >> brown: from el salvador, we have the story of an epidemic of tooth decay in the countryside blamed largely on american junk food and sodas. >> when i go into a village and the kid was come flock around us and hug us and smile, that's when i saw, oh my god, their teeth are all block and rotten. i...
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meanwhile, fighting raged in damascus and across syria. an opposition group reported more than 250 people were killed. border guards at british airports called a one-day strike for next thursday-- the day before the summer olympics open in london. and the centers for disease control warned the u.s. is on track to have the worst year for hooping cough in more than five decades. online, paulolman tries to make sense of campaign spending. kwame holman has the details. >> holman: is campaign spending a bad idea and a waste of billions of dollars, or is there some economic benefit? find out on our making sense page. plus, what lessons can today's young people take from the experiences of civil rights leaders during the 1960s? judy woodruff takes on that question in her weekly blog post, judy's notebook. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. ray? >> suarez: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. with david brooks and e.j. dion
meanwhile, fighting raged in damascus and across syria. an opposition group reported more than 250 people were killed. border guards at british airports called a one-day strike for next thursday-- the day before the summer olympics open in london. and the centers for disease control warned the u.s. is on track to have the worst year for hooping cough in more than five decades. online, paulolman tries to make sense of campaign spending. kwame holman has the details. >> holman: is campaign...
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that civil war won't be contained in syria. what happened in syria doesn't remain in syria. this is not libya. this is the imperative most civil wars. they do drag neighbors countries into them. we've seen the spillover in lebanon last week. we've seen iraqi tribes in the western side in iraq trying to help people across the borders syria. the turks have a vested interest in there. >> suarez: you say the situation is crying out for a leading country. why isn't that you are the economy? a long border with syria, an economic power, a regional power. it would seem to be a place where they could really step up, no? >> there's a turkish predicament here. turkey is a rising power but at the same time when it comes to syria and iran it's a reluctant power. the turks sent their foreign minister to washington a few days ago to ask the united states how long can the united states... how far the united states is willing to go with them to support them. if they're asking to take stronger measures against the government in damascus and the united states it's still wedded to the view that
that civil war won't be contained in syria. what happened in syria doesn't remain in syria. this is not libya. this is the imperative most civil wars. they do drag neighbors countries into them. we've seen the spillover in lebanon last week. we've seen iraqi tribes in the western side in iraq trying to help people across the borders syria. the turks have a vested interest in there. >> suarez: you say the situation is crying out for a leading country. why isn't that you are the economy? a...
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you talked about their feeling abandoned inside syria. what about outside the country as they use diplomatic efforts to try to consolidate the support from around the world? are they succeeding? are they seen as a logical next step in the other capitals of the world? >> first of all i think they have to consolidate their own ranks. the syrian opposition is quite fragmented. this syrian national council has presented itself as the de facto opposition group. an umbrella group, if you like but it has its own problems. you know, some people say that it has a very heavy islamist tilt. others say that it's mainly comprised of exiles have haven't set foot in syria for many years and they don't speak for the men and women who are on the streets of damascus and other cities actually like homs and other areas in syria who are living under this bombardment and who are dying. in the streets. so this syrian opposition in all of its varied forms needs to get its own house in order. that is a very serious concern because, you know, the people in the str
you talked about their feeling abandoned inside syria. what about outside the country as they use diplomatic efforts to try to consolidate the support from around the world? are they succeeding? are they seen as a logical next step in the other capitals of the world? >> first of all i think they have to consolidate their own ranks. the syrian opposition is quite fragmented. this syrian national council has presented itself as the de facto opposition group. an umbrella group, if you like...
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turkey warned syria today against any violations of their mutual border. that's after the syrians shot down a turkish plane last friday. turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan told parliament that from now on, any syrian forces near the border will be treated as a target. meanwhile, in brussels, turkey's nato allies stopped short of calling for military action against syria. but they rejected the downing of the turkish plane. >> we consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it in the strongest terms. let me make this clear. the security of the alliance is indivisible. we stand together with turkey in the spirit of strong solidarity. >> sreenivasan: in syria, heavy fighting raged in the suburbs of damascus, as rebel forces clashed with elite troops. smoke could be seen billowing out of an area near republican guard housing compounds and bases. activists reported at least six people were killed. an egyptian court dealt the country's military a blow today, barring it from arresting civilians. the government had granted that power to military police
turkey warned syria today against any violations of their mutual border. that's after the syrians shot down a turkish plane last friday. turkish prime minister recep tayyip erdogan told parliament that from now on, any syrian forces near the border will be treated as a target. meanwhile, in brussels, turkey's nato allies stopped short of calling for military action against syria. but they rejected the downing of the turkish plane. >> we consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it...
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also today, iran, syria's main backer, convened a meeting on how to end the conflict. the iranian foreign minister blamed syrian rebels for a list of crimes, including the abduction of 48 iranians last weekend. >> ( translated ): explosions, the kidnapping of ordinary citizens and pilgrims from other countries, using human shields and the increasing activities by extremist groups with the support of from regional and international parties indicate some agendas beyond syria are being pursued in the region. >> reporter:he rebels have saidhe iranian hostages were members iran's military on a spying mission. in all, 28 nations attended the tehran conference today, but western governments dismissed the gathering. in egypt, gunmen fired on a police station in the northern sinai, touching off a new firefight with egyptian forces. it was the latest in a series of attacks on the volatile peninsula where gaza, israel and egypt intersect. islamic militants struck a border crossing on sunday, killing 16 egyptian policemen. the egyptian military retaliated yesterday with air strike
also today, iran, syria's main backer, convened a meeting on how to end the conflict. the iranian foreign minister blamed syrian rebels for a list of crimes, including the abduction of 48 iranians last weekend. >> ( translated ): explosions, the kidnapping of ordinary citizens and pilgrims from other countries, using human shields and the increasing activities by extremist groups with the support of from regional and international parties indicate some agendas beyond syria are being...